Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few who guessed correctly, their reasoning was off the mark. They focused on ...
Mathematicians have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time. They have shown how to separate the 'signal' of human-made climate change from the 'noise' ...
Particle Physics at CERN, a new ethnography of CERN by Arpita Roy, an anthropologist at the University of California Berkeley, US, I was excited. Having recently completed a PhD in science ...
Using observations from NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter, the scientists behind the new findings were able to identify the weather patterns that may underlie roughly two-thirds of major dust storms on ...